politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you then. the world health organization scientists investigating the origins of code 19 questions the reliability of u.s. intelligence. says it wants to conduct its own probe in china. the european commission president admits the bloc was too late in authorizing covert vaccines. struggled with supply shortages we hear from a w.h.o. advisor. so not a matter of greece between countries who should get 1st and which block should. countries and the european union need to plan for a forest population to be covered by a certain period of time. senate impeachment trial and 2 democrats to their case that the former president incited an insurrection.

live from moscow this is the international break with the world news 1st for you this hour the world health organization scientist is questioning the reliability of u.s. intelligence on the origins of covert 19 of the taking part in a source tracing mission in china discussed developments with correspondent constantine. a figure that is front and center to this story peter does show he is a british american viral adjust and he was assisting the w.h.o. mission to hunt to find out the origins of the current so the scientists really didn't mince his words when he took to twitter to lash out at u.s. intelligence for backing theories that the virus could have been men made in came from a chinese lab let's have a listen well now this joe biden has to look tough on china please don't rely too

much on u.s. intelligence increasingly disengaged under trump and frankly role in many aspects now why has it made such a fuss well for one its strong language from a u w h o representative who has taken on the u.s. intelligence community questioning their credibility and the thing is that u.s. intelligence has a different version of why and how this pandemic came about and u.s. officials already claim that they're not going to accept the findings of these one mission until they could verify using their own intelligence broadly speaking we have expressed our concerns regarding the need for full transparency and access from china. and the w.h.o. access from china and all information regarding the earliest days of the pen demick and that speaks volumes about the level of trust that the new u.s.

administration has towards the w.h.o. and that is itself an interesting turn of events because as you remember when joe biden came to power he explicitly claimed that he's going to reverse most the peace process or its policies especially the one on pulling out of international organizations like w h o but the americas overall stance in that issue doesn't seem like you know changed a lot from what it was during the trauma. the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah well the w.h.o. finally has a team sent there they're doing this investigation how we got any closer to figuring out the origins of the 1000 then really you know if we talk about bigger picture right that the scientific community is trying to find out the origins of

this virus the source of this corona virus and that's why they sent this mission to to the chinese who the province where the virus was 1st detected in 2019 but the probe didn't give us a lot right away i mean the experts came only to one conclusion conclusion which is really important in the light of this ongoing spat between the u.s. and china and that is that the virus did not originate in a chinese lab and that it probably transmitted from animals presumably bats. to humans so again this is not exactly a revelation and we're still far from understanding the roots of the pandemic i guess what this story has shown to us is that the issue itself is highly politicized and clearly scientists are going to feel under immense pressure from both american and chinese scientists and will that you know make things difficult to get to the bottom of that almost certainly and while the covert vaccine rolled

out in europe is being plagued by delays with the european commission president sort of on the line of missing for the 1st time the blocks for would shorten it responds and should have approved vaccines. don't know if this isn't a tad saw her just for the fact is that today we're not where we want to be in converting the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to mystic about mess production and maybe we also took for granted so the doses ordered would actually arrive on time so we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it. while acknowledging that the e.u. overestimated its production capacity of all the line defended the join the e.u. vaccine strategy as the right way of dealing with the pandemic we spoke to a w.h.o. adviser who told us inoculation efforts need to be coordinated across borders. it's not a matter of race between countries who should get 1st and which block should get earlier i think we are all fighting this race against the virus so i think we will have to

be. realistic in all these vaccines available e t. plus vaccine do a lot in the countries but i think these are the countries and the european union in general need to plan for for its population to be covered by a certain period of time we have to acknowledge that this scale but the sheer scale of 19 vaccine is enormous so the demand for the vaccine is not common to the volume of vaccine that we have so there will have to be some privatization because of this global nature of 19 pandemic did the restaurants cannot be within the international boundaries we all need to understand that everybody need to be safe if we want our cell to be safe and within this principle of global solidarity we called upon all countries to ensure that this global public good

a covert 19 vaccine should be acceptable and accessible to everybody irrespective of the income status or income level this vaccine nationalism will or will hurt the country themselves we should be cautiously optimistic despite the time given that we do have a new toolkit on our hands a vaccine the covert 19 vaccine on our hand but i think. we do we need to keep a very very close. vigil on how the virus is behaving how the virus is our people our people are adjusting to these known non-pharmaceutical public health measures of hand washing using the mask and i think this is not the time to drop the guard i think this is the time to be more vigilant and do more in terms of the disease surveillance and the restaurants measures. i think u.s. senate has entered its 2nd day democrats are trying to prove that the former

president and cited the capitol hill riots on january the 6th. it's a moment of truth for america and this mob was well orchestrated their conduct was intentional they did it all in plain sight proudly openly and loudly this mob was provoked over many months by donald j. trump he could do and would do the exact same thing again because he said his conduct was totally appropriate he didn't just tell them to fight like hell he told them how where and when this is dangerous donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief of a dangerous insurrection. the troll kicked off yesterday with a video montage of those events presented as evidence and pro-democratic media pundits were suitably shocked.

ah. remarkable video by the house managers powerful an expletive laced video timeline disturbing and compelling video staggered like the rest of us by the presentation of the house managers with that video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber. later on donald trump's defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for trump to be impeached the clips date back to trump's 1st year in office and supposedly prove the democrats were out for blood long before any charges materialized last hour i spoke with legal or media analyst lionel if he thinks the case against trump has already collapsed. the evidence showed you would never know this from the particular evidence that was presented by the democrats but that these folks many of them were already there completely adore and some of them an almost a choir as i military apparel was zipping by ready for arrests in helmets already

anticipating what they were going to do prior to donald trump saying and this is a political exercise this is political theater this is not subject to any court reviewing what happens this isn't an animal it's shown this impeachment trial the only reason this is being done is to prevent donald trump from running again worse and why is that because many people suspect that internal polling indicates that the democrats realize that he might be stronger. if you were to run in 2024. of his head back and a huge lawmakers off the claims that the european foreign policy chief was too soft on moscow during his recent trip foreign ministry spokeswoman there is a car of her accuse those politicians of throwing a tantrum and reveal the secrets about our western partners when they fail to carry

out a flogging they throw a tantrum the aim was to carry out that probably flogging which i think has been planned very thorough only 50 e.u. law makers blocked a motion to force out years of burrell over his trip he defended himself by also attacking russia over the visit in the e.u. parliamentary session. reason deep disappointment and growing mistrust between the debian union and russia i also wanted to test to do russian authorities are interested in a serious attempt to reverse did it did unity ation of our relations and seize the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue the answer has been clear no moscow to be used at the visit of high representative bordello to you mediate and offend the european union mr borrero and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week you must go by his actions he made

a mockery of the ambition of the e.u. to play a major role in the world stage the catalan leaders have been sentence from 9 to 13 years in prison for our nation our friend. we have a worm that the double standard applied by do you undermines its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world record commanding receipts that does not apply to chelsea i was happy as anybody else to sound out for anybody's rights including the found nice but let's be honest if i was him he's officious i don't see emigrants racist on maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him after all if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in russia the euro and pay just heard told us later the some politicians have a vested interest in seeking confrontation with russia. by doing so unfortunately it's her ongoing campaign and so i do european union i think in many ways driven by

the military industrial complex it sort of holds the enemy in order to justify and much more secured so it's e.u. and we have this narrative of supposedly european guy use whatever they are that we're supposed to bring them to the rest of the worlds and not russia. which is obviously nonsense i don't think i regret the fact that it does reflect a deteriorating relationship but there are certainly elements many elements. who are happy to play a sort of energy russian current and we are seeing the us increasingly so now. thanks campaign as a briton are demanding answers from police chiefs over the death of a black man that they offer his arrest out a shoddy add to his dash he's been speaking to the family of muhammad a son you smiling at. and he was

he. was always you know. we live by my actual journey with the oligarchs and i mean he was you know by the whole family i mean you have not the whole now light 24 year old mohammed mohamed has and was arrested at home in cardiff on friday the 8th of january he was suspected of breaching the peace the us or at least added the next morning without charge then after arriving back at his house in newport rhode he passed away in his sleep his family and lawyers allege it was due to serious injuries from the time spent in custody why did he die. because of you know because i'm bill who doesn't go into. all we know. that. you know he looked. away and he went home to write i never want again not to.

go on how following muhammad's death hundreds took part in protests over successive nights in cardiff they demanded the release of c.c.t.v. and party of on footage from offices at cardiff bay police station many held black lives matter banas and compared the case to that of george floyd the 46 year old black man killed while being arrested in minneapolis in the usa back in may he came out with bruises and cuts to his body and to his face this is a death of a young healthy lac who was arrested by the police during his detention he came into contact with 52 police officers and within hours he died it is absolutely right so it should be good in the same context as george floyd this is not unusual in black communities the forces say that early findings indicate no

misconduct issues and no excessive force but have referred themselves to the independent office for police conduct as part of an investigation c.c.t.v. and body one video has already been and will continue to be examined this will assist in establishing an understanding the events that took place early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force we are aware of the extensive reporting on social media but due to the ongoing investigation referral we are mabel to common any further at this stage one month on the questions surrounding mohammed's death remain unanswered and the trust between the police and the community appears to be at an all time low the official report when it comes could change all of that but until then this family has campaigned for justice continues to edward stash r t u k. terms of broken out the new york times after an award winning veteran reporter was forced to quit the newspaper for using racist language

don but neal jr had worked for the paper for 45 years he was widely praised for his science coverage of the covert $900.00 pandemic but last month his reputation took a downturn so for school students who went on a trip organized by the new york times in 2019 accused him of making repeated racist remarks now in an e-mail apology he explained that he did use a racial slur when discussing videos in which such a would have been used he described it as an act of extraordinarily bad judgment and the new york times was quick to condemn its reporters behavior posting a staff memo saying we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent not all staff are on board with that message though judging by a leaked exchange between employees in a facebook group we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent might be the most racist statement i've ever read he did means all races why didn't the new

school do far more to defend and protect the job of a long time times employee one who at times a tireless heroic work on behalf of the killed to help improve pay and conditions for all n.y.t. employees why is it there to focus in discussions like this almost always isn't ruling in the perpetrators live and not those who are harmed by his actions. let's talk now that chris hedges those of r.t. america's on contact good to see across you know donald mcneil jr personally do you think you are just caught out in a robust discussion with the student soft should somebody of his experience and lineage in this business should have known better. i wasn't there i only know the reporting about the discussion i think we should remember that the executive editor of the new york times is. african-american dean baquet very fine reporter in iraq hired together and dean initially judged that it was

a court judgment call but it wasn't racist it wasn't he wasn't using a derogatory slur either directed at a person or a group of people it was the n. word which perhaps as a way person he should not have uttered but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was blowback there's very powerful kind of cancel culture especially among the liberal elites there was blowback within the institution and dawn was removed but if the reporting of how that word was used. is accurate then i think this was probably overly judgmental and too severe and so what do you make of the way the new york times executives handled this then the has been some flip flopping haven't they that that question of intent. yes and i actually think intent is a fair issue if the intent is to demean and insult and

dehumanize another person that of course is completely unacceptable if the intent is to engage in a discussion which apparently was a case about how racial slurs are used to demean and humanize people that is different it was i think about a call on his part to use that particular racial slur but certainly after the investigation as it was publicly presented by the times did not accuse don in any way of. attempting to demean or insult a lot of person i don't think that's an important issue and what about the way the the students behaved in this they've effectively brought to an end a very lustrous long career name extremely public way but the same token some people would have been deeply offended by the words that we used. yeah i mean you know so the times runs these junkets for rich kids to go to places you know with

reporters and this is what it was it was kind of a tour for the upper middle class or rich and and they were you know they called him out on this issue. and you know he did lose his job i mean you know 45 years i knew done not just as a reporter but he was a tireless advocate for the union itself often jeopardizing his career to stand up to management so you know if the reporting was accurate yeah and i wasn't there i haven't heard a transcript but if the. characterization of what happened by the new york times initially is accurate i think this is just one more victim of an overly obsessive. castle culture that engages in a kind of moral purity at the expense of taking on the real centers of power the corporate state. domestic intelligence services. dysfunctional

political system etc and end jobs like i was those as you and i both know chris and as mr mcneil jr but also know there is a power of responsibility are invited into people's homes we have a given these platforms there is a duty of care in the power of the woods that we gives no matter what situation we're put in yes i think that's true i'm not arguing that point is just the degree of culpability and and the response. yeah i'm not arguing that is true and is there an issue then for management in today's pile on well because again we're all asked to push the envelope we're all off to people to buy our newspapers watch on t.v. programs listen to our pod costs so there's that pressure on the performers the journalists to be able to have those robust discussions in the public sphere and yet it feels like it's one strike and you're out when the pile on the codes. yeah and the pile on came from within the institution and i think that cancer the kind

of cancel culture can get kind of swung out of control you know it's not the only. you know people are being pushed aside for misjudgments and bad calls that i don't think warrant the extremity. of the punishment is meted out to them and in this case i would say that that is probably true don. and in terms of organizations like the new york times or other major news organizations in the having the outreach projects with the journalists of tomorrow or the communities of tomorrow do you think it means they can have to draw a line of those kind of things that means youngsters missing out on opportunities i don't think will draw a line on that i mean that's long been it's not just kids that are run tours for the very rich they'll probably you know get on private jets that lease jets and take them all over the world for like $35000.00 that's long been

a money making operation for the times they're not going to stop. ok we're looking forward to the next on contact on all to america for now though chris hedges thanks very much great thank you. and that's the way looks from moscow so far thanks for checking in with our international for your news is just coming up to 25 past 10 on wednesday night here in moscow i'll have your next update right here in 35 minutes as the event. internet censorship is happening at an accelerated pace conservatives and progressives are being demolished and the platform more times than not the censorship was never really explained we are left to assume when the phrase community standards is invoked we somehow were threatening but that's what dissent gives all about. a

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politics flags and patriotism to help is failing poll numbers in part to i'll be talking to dr james trafford about how britain's brutal imperial empire lives on through british culture values and sense of self but 1st the biggest vaccination program in world history is being rolled out around the world and boris johnson says britain is world leading or we had a britain much harder hit by coronavirus than all g 7 countries joining me now from oxford in england is senior research fellow at oxford university collective responsibility for infectious disease program dr alberto giuliani thanks so much alberto for coming on and i should ask 1st of all given that your an expert you've written about this before the pandemic how do you see the moral dimension to the current vaccine rollout here in britain. i think that this government is story in india specific is that it's mission a good job and i think the public the general public is responding well to that as being what the hypoxia should not take i think it is

a moral imperative to get this about seen when it is off air i think refusing is vaccine now is it morally irresponsible. as is possible to delay the execution of program like europe for example because every every day we wait before approving or read out of that scene that means that more nice will be lost so i think that it is a moral responsibility of our individual is going to be seen on the collective to create a system whereby as many vaccine as possible are distributed and on governments to approve and a lot of expansion program as quickly and effectively as possible. moral question do you think elites fully understand why the dispossessed as it were do not trust elites when they tell them to take vaccines after you know arguably being repeated and they lied to over so many things whether it be the colony whether the head of the iraq war i agree so there is

a lot of mistrust also within despondingly there's been a lot of i didn't misinformation or lack of clarity around certain issues in the last 10 months for example around where that masks were effective or not i don't know whether looking down is effective or not it is a lot of conflicting information i think it's quite understandable there is a lot of distrust that at sobeys isn't bishan to tip normal and background and sentiment that has been growing in the last month so i think these are quite the dangers approach. building up the public's trust is a priority or it is a moment because. as a set. like you're going to take means more remarks we lost well i should say obviously the british government still gives no mandatory advise about having to wear masks outside famously the world health organizations they weren't effective up until relatively recently what do you make though of the fact that the so-called

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